Re: Accumulated fontset definition tweaks for testing

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden writes:

> Below is the complete set of fontset changes that my system needed to
> display the HELLO file and Markus Kuhn's "UTF-8-demo.txt" file.  There
> are various problems with the fontset definitions that we can fix in
> Emacs Lisp.

>   1. The "symbol" and "phonetic" scripts don't have any representative
>   characters defined, and they don't have any fontset defined.

>   2. The Latin script doesn't have representative characters over
>   7-bits.  This means the Xft backend doesn't have any constraint that
>   would reject ISO8859-1 fonts.  Emacs appears to have special support
>   for real ISO8859-1 characters, so the new definition should not
>   break anything.

>   3. The Armenian script has representative characters, but no fontset
>   defined.

>   4. The Thai fontset definition assumes that you have OpenType set
>   up.  It needs a fallback in case you don't.

>   5. The Hangul fontset definition assumes that you have a language
>   definition in your Hangul font.  It needs a fallback in case you
>   don't.

Thank you for them.  I'm going reflect 1 to 3 in fontset.el.
I think 4 and 5 is not necessary if we implement
registry-representative-chars as I wrote in the previous
mail.

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Kenichi Handa
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